It was a piece of cake , nothing worth paying somebody to do .

Hey Dom,Folks have and always will be scammed by turnkey providers.Folks have and always will fail when trying to do it all themselves.A few succeed and my fedora is off to them.Many other fail and then it's up to us to make a cake out of crap.I'm bias and think folks should buy turnkey.Then again, I personally wouldn't buy turnkey because I had no issues moving from Australia to Ohio and doing it all "myself."

If you want to get a GC on your side, show us respect, we eat it up like a fatboy on cake (I know, I am both the GC and fatboy, lol).

@Dennis Wayne Thanks and I also like that I get a "Cherry" - I call the appreciation I have been seeing the last few years the "Cherry on top of the icing of the cake".

@Diana DorantesHaving a hard time finding good deals definitely sounds about right with an overall shortage of housing especially in Columbus which is crazy right now as @Marc Rice stated making it more competitive and leading to most properties flying off the shelf like hot cakes.

Be conservative when estimating the appreciation, treat it as icing on the cake.

But I never thought these words would come out of the Dingo :) ...And I'm so excited it did.In times like these, there are so many opportunities that arise.Check Craigslist when you get a moment.Everyone is selling like hot cakes lolIt sucks that the criteria is not the same for other homes and that is a huge indiscrepancyYou want to join in on fighting the legislation?

In looking for a good deal, we are trying to determine a market that would be turnkey friendly and have cash-flowing opportunities (positive of course) with appreciation not necessary but icing on the cake. 

Investing for tax benefits should not be the prime reason but simply the icing on the cake however.What I found typical is for people to lower their leverage as they age.

If your looking for great cash flow we have some amazing middle class neighborhoods that rent like hot cakes.